July 2008

Killing fields
Scotsman - United Kingdom
Sharma uses natural, homemade pesticides such as cow manure mixed with urine, soured milk, garlic, chillies and the leaves of a native plant that wards off ...

“Biolytix Wastewater Treatment System wins Australian Innovation ...
Infolink Architecture & Building - Australia
Designing from his earth-sheltered cave (with pineapples growing on top and passionfruit vines inside), his energy-efficient Biolytix Wastewater Treatment ...

Farms learn costs, benefits of technology
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI,USA
They recently spent $600000 to modernize their manure management system, a change that should pay for itself in 5 to 10 years. ...

Editorial: Gas from garbage
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
But to join them, be prepared to irritate the neighbors. A good backyard methane pit uses a lot of pig and chicken manure.

Efficient use of fertilizer a focus of crop production
Bismarck Farm & Ranch Guide - ND, USA
He says the technology is especially useful in operations that use manure since there is some variability in nutrient value. Gerhardt says the technology ...

Let's Claim Our Rotting Riches
TheTyee.ca - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
Methane, a greenhouse gas 27 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, is formed as organic waste decays in airless conditions. Some places burn landfill gas ...

Costs favouring organic
Yorkshire Post - Leeds,England,UK
Globally, agriculture is the single largest source of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide – which is over 310 times more damaging than carbon dioxide.

MiniVDO: Special - Phuket farmer converts cow dung to fuel for ...
Thailand National News Bureau - Phuket,Thailand
He shows us a simple way of making the fuel by mixing the manure with water, fermented for 30 days. The phenomenon creates gas. He then uses that gas for ...

SIUC workers get filthy on the farms
SIU - Daily Egyptian - Carbondale,IL,USA
Stuemke said one person climbs down into the chamber and hands five-gallon buckets of wastewater up to another person while manure falls down from the walls ...

Nasty nitrate
Southern Idaho Business - Twin Falls,ID,USA
Cows, he said, have been singled out simply because their manure is more noticeable. "One pivot of spuds puts on more nitrogen than 13500 cows," he said.

The satisfying taste of home
The Nelson Mail - Nelson,New Zealand
Everything has its uses. Several weeks ago, I arrived home to find a bag of shallots sitting in the middle of my garden. Perplexed, I wondered if these ...

Much a-doo about dung
Today's Local News - San Marcos,CA,USA
However, because the zoo is a permanent post-quarantine facility, to which animals are brought in from the wild, most of the manure cannot be removed. ...

Smells Like the End
Silicon Valley's Metro - San Jose,CA,USA
Nearby residents of South Valley Mushroom Farm complain about the proliferating aroma of the horse manure, an unavoidable part of the process essential to

Huge energy-from-waste facility opens in Paris (03/07/2008)
MoreThanWaste - Northallerton,England,UK
Everything from construction of the site on the banks of the Seine to the inclusion of a ‘living’ roof was carefully planned to ensure that ISSÉANE would ...

Bonterra Vineyards: Ground Zero for Organic Grapegrowing
Appellation America - San Francisco,CA,USA
David Koball, Bonterra’s Director of Mendocino County Vineyards, also uses two field sprays, one is cow manure made into a tea and sprayed on the ground to ...

It's all about the cows
Herald Times Reporter - Manitowoc,WI,USA
Cow manure on the Nagel farm is managed via skid steer scraping it into gutters, and then fed into an auger and onto manure spreaders. ...

—Organic garden uses every sustainable trick while fitting its ...
Seattle Times - United States
Angora rabbit brothers Peaches and Mocha are an integral part of garden's circle of sustainability, for their manure is used as fertilizer and their alfalfa ...

Minnesota farm uses methane to make electricity
Minnesota Public Radio - Saint Paul,MN,USA
Jennison can still use the manure for fertilizer after it's run through the process. Because it no longer contains methane, it's lost much of its odor, ...

June 2008

Beneath peaceful waters
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA
There was a group of horses not 20 feet upstream, and their manure just floated down to the kids in the water.” Bill Terry of Jadwin retired from the park ...

Rankin Farmer Points to Contaminated Manure For Tomato Salmonella ...
WLBT-TV - Jackson,MS,USA
Minton uses this to fertilize his plants. He warns consumers should be careful of what tomatoes they eat, and question where, and how they were grown. ...

Pig poo to help solve global energy crisis?
Times of India - India
University of Illinois researcher Yuanhui Zhang has developed a system that uses heat and pressure to transform organic compounds such as manure into oil ...

The greening of livestock manure
Grand Island Independent - Grand Island,NE,USA
Henry said the sprinkler vegetative treatment system was developed by UNL Extension and uses a K-Line pod sprinkler system that deposits the liquid runoff ...

Entrepreneurs pitch in for greener globe
Calgary Herald - AB, Canada
In 2007, more than 125 biogas recovery systems in the US were reducing methane emissions from manure by almost 80000 tonnes while generating 275 million ...

City incinerator cuts transport emissions
Environmental Data Interactive - UK
... and TV station TF1, has been built largely underground in a bid to minimise its visual impact, and will be covered with a living roof and living walls. ...

Old remedy has new promise
Central Alberta Farmer - Leduc,Alberta,Canada
I asked the doctor how he dared to do that, and he said, ‘Well, I put it on the horse and she’s out there in the mud and manure and she heals up.

Arrrgh worms are eating my waste!
Sunday Sun - Newcastle upon Tyne,England,UK
Don't put any of this in your wormery: citrus fruit and skins; onions and garlic; potato peelings; food containing fat or vinegar; meat; or animal manure. ...

May 2008

Container gardening: No limits
Norwich Bulletin - Norwich,CT,USA
Logee’s has designed one tropical container that uses the Ensente “Maurelli Abyssinian Banana” for a stunning tropical design. Then consider two or three

“”Making Mountains Of Mulch And Compost
BioCycle magazine - Emmaus,PA,USA
Other green waste is mixed with horse manure and composted in trapezoidal aerated static piles (ASP). Approximately 400 to 500 yards/week of manure are

Van Landfill tests food, green waste composting
Surrey Now - BC, Canada
In Ladner, food waste is already converted into compost at the Westcoast Instant Lawns facility, which also uses other material such as manure to turn into ...

Dairy opponents jam public hearing on pollution control permits
Adrian Daily Telegram - Adrian,MI,USA
In the past 30 days, he said, he watched tankers haul more than 1 million gallons of manure from a dairy in Ohio onto 150 acres of land near his home. ...

Swine Manure Cuts Fertilizer Costs and Produces High Quality High ...
Farmscape Online - Brandon,Manitoba,Canada
Dalgarno uses a combination manure application and commercial fertilizer applications to address the environmental concerns. “We try to do this application ...

Farming: A family affair for Eggers
Milton Canadian Champion - Milton,ON,Canada Roland uses a pitchfork to push the manure into an automated stable cleaner, which carries the excrement out of the barn on what looks like a conveyer belt. ..

Workshop to Help Farmers Increase Energy Efficiency
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
They are also exploring other alternative energy opportunities including generating methane from manure, she added. "The audit experience was great," she

MixAlco commercial test plant build underway
Biofuel Review - Rolvenden,England,UK
The pilot plant can process up to 200 dry pounds per day of biomass using feedstock such as paper wastes and chicken manure. ..

Must-have gardening products help the environment, as well
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA
CowPots use a process of drying composted manure into a pot we can plant. The pots last for months in a greenhouse but break down within weeks once planted ...

Biggest Bang From the Biogas Production Buck
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
One option called for converting the excess biogas into electricity for sale to the grid. But a second option, upgrading the biogas to pipeline- quality ...

Horses help local farmers cut costs
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
And they give me manure back for the ground." Mulhollem has used his draft horses around his farm for years, "but I never used them to the extent that I do ...

A Growing Trend
Daytona Beach News-Journal - Daytona Beach,FL,USA
Manure is used on a limited scale to improve the fertility of the soil, and she composts tree trimmings, leaves and the like to generate even more organic ...

April 2008

Is organic always best?
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USA
Manure -- Compost is the darling of anyone who gardens, but organic material like manure must be composted or broken down by microorganisms. ...

The future of dirt
Boston Globe - United States
It contains high concentrations of charcoal, along with organic matter such as manure and fish bones - essentially the household trash of a pre-Columbian ...

Vineyards thrive after sheep's handiwork
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
"They do three things with every step: eat, drop manure and till the cover crop and their manure into the soil. Their hooves are great cultivating equipment ...

Local establishments team up to teach, conserve
Community Press & Recorder - Florence,KY,USA
... Someday Farm for compost. One product that is grown with this compost is a special peppermint tea, which is for sale by the can at the restaurant. ...

Farm Digesters For Small Dairies In Vermont
BioCycle magazine - Emmaus,PA,USA
In Vermont, the typical manure storage pit is large enough to hold six months of waste from the farm, plus expected rainwater. At Cow Power farms, ...

Syntec Biofuel Acquires Access to Catalyst Technologies for ...
CNNMoney.com - USA
The Syntec catalyst technology can also produce alcohols from biogas (sourced from anaerobic digestion of manure and effluent), landfill gas or stranded

The Nomco Story
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
"Fifteen or twenty years ago I saw a researcher named John Sayward experiment with a bark-manure mixture in Vermont. The crops he grew with the help of that ...

Gardening scheme is hotbed of action
Keighley News - Keighley,UK
... which uses allotments at Marley, in Keighley. He explained that by allowing a bed of manure to naturally heat the soil on which the vegetables grow,

Grassed-Based Dairy Operation Wins Conservation Award
Lancaster Farming - Ephrata,PA,USA
One of the biggest changes in relieving the workload and improving conservation practices was installing a six-month manure storage system this past winter. ...

Toxic fumes, blisters & brain damage : The cost of doing business?
Ithaca Times - Ithaca,NY,USA
She's about to turn on the faucet, and there's a chance liquid manure is going to stream from the spout. "I've been taking a bath and actually had cow shit ...

Farmers' latest cash crop: manure
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
And if I use spring pricing ... it's closer to $28000," says Mr. Dick, who advises grain farmers on applying manure to their crops. ..

Owatonna-based Bushel Boy adds lettuce to its line
Post-Bulletin - Rochester,MN,USA
Johnson said Bushel Boy lettuce is safe from food-borne diseases because it is grown without manure in a controlled environment. "In California, there was ...

It's all about the worms
Twin Cities Planet - Minneapolis,Minnesota,USA
Nitrogen could come from alfalfa hay, coffee grounds, grass clippings, fresh manure, table scraps, or young weeds. Carbon could come from cardboard, leaves,

2 pm: Dairy shut down over manure spills
Anderson Herald Bulletin - Anderson,IN,USA
AP HUNTINGTON, Ind. — A dairy farm with a history of manure releases that threatened a nearby reservoir will be sold to an Ohio-based company as part of an ...

Planned dairy farm that would be Illinois' largest prompts debate
Fort Mills Times - Fort Mill,SC,USA
Some local farmers count themselves as Bos supporters, saying they could use the manure fertilizer his farm will produce. They also hope to sell Bos feed. ...

Farm life raises addicts' hopes
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Just before dawn, shoveling cow manure in the milking barn, Ryan Medlin feels a world away from his wild life back in San Francisco. ...

Californian hopes Illinois is land of milk and money
Chicago Tribune - United States
They worry about stench from vast manure ponds, potential groundwater pollution and the prospect of even larger dairies blotting the tranquil countryside. ...

Fiscalini Cheese Company: Merging Green Technology with Reverence ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Fiscalini also plans to grow Sudan Grass, which requires much nitrogen (derived from the manure), to use as silage, feeding it directly into the tanks on a ...

March 2008

Compost tea an alternative to chemicals
Dowagiac Daily News - MI, USA
As Arden Anderson wrote in "Science in Agriculture, Advanced Methods for Sustainable Farming," "Over the past 50 or more years, agriculture has functioned, ...

HOW TO MAKE COW MANURE...WITHOUT A COW!
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
NOW... electricity from manure gases May/June 1970 Reprinted by special permis... Producing your own milk and dairy products, from the Have More Plan

Improving your garden soil
Kane County Chronicle - Geneva,IL,USA
Manure is another good source of organic matter, as is rotted leaves. Most of us are familiar with the various animal manures, preferably aged to allow the ...

Waste still the biggest concern on hog farms
Times Bulletin - Van Wert,OH,USA
The root of the issue is manure. Members of CARE are protesting the opening of six large hog farms in a ten-mile area over the next few years because of

Energy deal uses manure
Youngstown Vindicator - Youngstown,OH,USA
Now, add another source to that list — cow manure. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is unveiling its latest renewable energy project this week, a system that ...

Cleaner runoff can help tame algae in water, expert says
Herald Times Reporter - Manitowoc,WI,USA
Farmers traditionally overfed their cows with phosphorous-loaded feed that ended up in the manure, he said, noting that farmers now are feeding their cows

Happy Cows are fantasy, but dairy herds just may live better in ...
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USA
They spend their days standing on dirt or concrete, sometimes in and among mounds of their own manure. That doesn't necessarily mean they are unhappy. ...

Local Dairy Farm To Pay For Manure Overflow
Fulton County News - McConnellsburg,PA,USA
A family neighboring a McConnellsburg-based dairy, which is being held accountable for causing an accidental manure spill into a creek last year, ...

Dutch dairy operation planned for Carroll
Monticello Herald Journal - Monticello,IN,USA
Pasman plans to limit the amount of acreage he buys, about 265 acres, and instead contract with local farmers for feed and to haul away manure. ...

Mining Manure for Phosphorus
Agricultural Research - Beltsville,MD,USA
This innovation provides an environmentally sound phosphorus recovery system that livestock producers can use to manage the excess phosphorus in manure.

As cities encroach on farms, sights, smells sure to irritate
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
A neighbor sued Birrell for placing manure and hay too close to the property line, but a jury sided with the farmer, who said it cost him $70000 to defend. ...

Looking at manure management in a new light
The Prairie Star - Great Falls,MT,USA
By DALE HILDEBRANT, For The Prairie Star JAMESTOWN, ND - With fertilizer prices going up and more concern over environmental matters, manure is becoming

February 2008

Manure Tech Reviews Aim for Cleaner Calif. Air, Water
UC Davis - Davis,CA,USA
Intent on identifying the most effective manure-treatment processes and equipment, UC Davis is collaborating on a technology review project with the ...

Earthworms eating contaminated soil
United Press International - USA
22 (UPI) -- Chemicals from household products and manure are entering the food chain through earthworms that live in farm fields, US scientists said Friday.

Posted By KIM COOPER
Chatham Daily News - Chatham,Ontario,Canada
A tree does not reach its most productive stage of carbon storage for about 10 years. Trees cut down noise pollution by acting as sound barriers. ...

Garden tended by schoolkids to use different kind of fertilizer
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
One garden volunteer doesn't want schoolchildren using "human manure" - and some scientists say the fertilizer could be deadly. "If you have a person who is ...

Palo Alto's utility considers cow power
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By Kristina Peterson Palo Alto may become the first municipal utility in the state to use methane gas from cow manure as a source of alternative energy. ...

The Good Earth Farm
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
At regular intervals the manure-hay mixture will be shovelled through a trap door into compost heaps under the buildings. The heat generated from the ...

Construction expert discusses turning 'green' building into gold
Waco Tribune Herald - Waco,TX,USA
Strategically placed drains will funnel rainwater into a cistern. A solar-powered pump will move water from the cistern to the greenery on the chamber’s

Hung out to dry
Winnipeg Free Press - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
Because it's old, the area has a combined sewer system, not a separate one for rainwater runoff like you find in newer areas. When there's a downpour, ...

Storing Energy Using Graphite
The Oil Drum - USA
The company claims the turbine will use less water than falls in an average year on the power station's roof. A third system using the graphite system is ...

Students dream big at science fair
San Mateo Daily News - Palo Alto,CA,USA
Her experiment studied which makes methane gas faster - manure or spoiled vegetables. It lasted several weeks. "I found out that manure does in fact make ...

STRIKING GOLD with GREEN MANURE
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
Plus, they provide nutrients to turn a cover crop hack into the garden while the plant is still green and it's called "green manure. ...

Campbell's nifty list of energy buzzwords now includes, well, manure
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
VICTORIA - Premier Gordon Campbell travelled to the centre of the province Thursday to announce his latest strategy, a plan to turn waste into electricity. ...

Manure storage: The center of controversy
Frederick News Post (subscription) - Frederick,MD,USA
By Ike Wilson They're called manure lagoons, manure pits, even fertilizer storage facilities. But they're all the same thing -- tools for farmers to store ...

Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Manure, write on!
North Texas e-News - TX,USA
I bet you didn’t know that you can turn manure into paper. A.: I didn’t know that. Now I do. Thank you. I probably won’t try to do it just yet

Now, toilets to save water and recycle waste into manure
Lucknow Newsline - Lucknow,India
Such toilets will not only cut down wastage of water but also recycle the waste, to be later used as manure. Prof Vinod Tare and his team, in collaboration ...

January 2008

Owen Hembry: Load of old manure could prevent cancer
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
By Owen Hembry As you are driving through the countryside and a nearby farm fills the car with the pungent aroma of fresh manure don't pull faces and blame ...

Sun, wind and dung roped in to ease power crisis
The Times - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
Consumers countrywide have started snapping up a new kind of locally assembled solar panel that fits onto a house roof , generates electricity from the sun, ...

The THWASPCO/Potty House in Winter-By Greenpa(Greenpa)
(Literally; or adobe, or rammed earth, or thatch...) The streets aren't paved. They use outhouses. Each house has one lightbulb. It's horrifying that humans should be forced to live this way! We think. They frequently don't think so, ...

Underground: Fire still smolders in W. Knox County
WVLT - Knoxville,TN,USA
KNOX COUNTY (WVLT) - It has been three weeks, and a West Knox County neighborhood still faces a cloud of uncertainty. In that time, Tedford Lane has turned ...

Trucker dumps chicken manure on road
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
A truck driver was charged after a load of chicken manure spilled out of his semitrailer truck, covering a Cerro Gordo County road for more than a mile. ...

Dairy farming with renewed energy
London Free Press - Canada
The $4.5-million digester produces methane gas from cow manure. At full capacity, the Stanton farm will have the capacity produce 300 kilowatts of power.

Oregon Turns Dairy Waste Into Renewable Energy
Environmental Leader - Fort Collins,CO,USA
Dairy farms that install anaerobic digesters can receive cash incentives to turn manure into biogas and generate green electricity. ...